CVE-2006-1865

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Beagle before 0.2.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted filenames that inject command line arguments when Beagle launches external helper applications while indexing.

Affected products

Beagle Project Beagle: before 0.2.5 — fixed in 0.2.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Beagle Project Beagle 0.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2006-April/013163.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19778
http://secunia.com/advisories/19781
http://secunia.com/advisories/19897
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_28.html
http://www.osvdb.org/24938
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17611
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189282
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26104
http://lists.seifried.org/pipermail/security/2006-April/013163.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-002.html

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